- Joined
- Oct 14, 2007
First thing's first - I love this phone. For $50 on contract (Best Buy) or if you were lucky, $.01 on contract through Amazon for Black Friday, this phone is an absolute steal. It's blazing fast with the Snapdragon 801 processor combined with 32GB of storage and 3GB of RAM. It also has a 3000mAh battery to last...well, forever for my uses. There is also an SD slot that allows expanded storage of up to an extra 128GB. But the crowning pièce de résistance is the 5.5", 1440p (the first to market in a phone) IPS screen. It's...well, it's just gorgeous.
The other interesting feature on this phone is carried over from the LG G2 - the rear power button & volume rocker. This is much more intuitive than you might think and you can adapt to it very easily. When holding the phone, it's the perfect position. No reaching around to the sides, or worse yet the top corner. Of course, if you don't feel like picking the phone up to turn it on/off, LG has its 'double tap' feature, where you just tap anywhere on the screen twice to wake it up...and if you're at your home screen, you can also put it right back to sleep that way.
That also clears out the sides so that there aren't any buttons at all; just the mic, power & headphone ports on the bottom...
...and the top mic & IR blaster on top.
On the lower rear is the 1W speaker, which isn't as nice as front-facing speakers on phones like the HTC One M8, but it does well for a rear-facing speaker for sure.
Here's another look at the rear controls. On the bottom left is the camera's laser focus system. In the upper right is the dual-LED flash. In the middle is what so far seems to be a very nice 13MP camera. I don't have any sample photos worth showing (my DSLR goes pretty much everywhere I would want to take real photos), but will try to get something to show in the near'ish future.
I'll leave you with a shot of the big, beautiful screen in action.
I'll post more soon'ish, but for now...sleep.
The other interesting feature on this phone is carried over from the LG G2 - the rear power button & volume rocker. This is much more intuitive than you might think and you can adapt to it very easily. When holding the phone, it's the perfect position. No reaching around to the sides, or worse yet the top corner. Of course, if you don't feel like picking the phone up to turn it on/off, LG has its 'double tap' feature, where you just tap anywhere on the screen twice to wake it up...and if you're at your home screen, you can also put it right back to sleep that way.
That also clears out the sides so that there aren't any buttons at all; just the mic, power & headphone ports on the bottom...
...and the top mic & IR blaster on top.
On the lower rear is the 1W speaker, which isn't as nice as front-facing speakers on phones like the HTC One M8, but it does well for a rear-facing speaker for sure.
Here's another look at the rear controls. On the bottom left is the camera's laser focus system. In the upper right is the dual-LED flash. In the middle is what so far seems to be a very nice 13MP camera. I don't have any sample photos worth showing (my DSLR goes pretty much everywhere I would want to take real photos), but will try to get something to show in the near'ish future.
I'll leave you with a shot of the big, beautiful screen in action.
I'll post more soon'ish, but for now...sleep.